An allergy happens when your immune system mistakes a normal, harmless substance for something that can cause illness. Your body then has an allergic reaction to this harmless substance—called an ...

Researchers have identified a compound that could block certain life-threatening and hard-to-treat allergic reactions.

Antibody treatments are a type of immunotherapy that work ... triggering the immune response during an allergic reaction or by stimulating immune cells to fight parasite infections.

Also, more complex immune reactions may develop around ... To complicate things, patients may also develop delayed-type hypersensitivity reactions to metals (ie, in-stent restenosis, prosthesis ...

Called 'tolerogenic dendritic cells,' these cells enable food to pass through the body without triggering an immune reaction ... them to well-understood cell types, the researchers concluded ...

Some types of PD-1 and PD-L1 inhibitors are available ... Side effects from treatment are possible, such as fatigue or an autoimmune reaction that causes organ inflammation. Depending on where ...

These substances cause the classic allergic reaction symptoms, ranging from mild itching or ... By studying mice, the researchers identified tolerogenic dendritic cells – a type of immune cell that ...

Called "tolerogenic dendritic cells," these cells enable food to pass through the body without triggering an immune reaction ... them to well-understood cell types, the researchers concluded ...